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(Reuters) – Myanmar rescuers found two more bodies at a jade mine on Thursday after an official conceded there was little hope of finding survivors among scores of people buried by an avalanche of dirt and rubble while searching for fragments of the gems. Many were swept into a lake below by the landslide of …

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By Edmond Ng and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) – A leading Hong Kong university has dismantled and removed a statue from its campus site that for more than two decades has commemorated pro-democracy protesters killed during China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989. The artwork, of anguished human torsos, is one of the few remaining …

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By Daphne Psaledakis and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States formally exempted on Wednesday U.S. and U.N. officials doing permitted business with the Taliban from U.S. sanctions to try to maintain the flow of aid to Afghanistan as it sinks deeper into a humanitarian crisis. It was unclear, however, whether the move would pave …

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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s government is not considering an immediate change to current COVID-19 restrictions, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said on Thursday, a day after community transmission of the Omicron variant was discovered in the country. The government confirmed on Wednesday that a family of three based in the western city of Osaka were infected …

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By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) -Organisers of the Beijing Winter Olympics said on Thursday they expect a “certain number” of COVID-19 cases in China due to foreigners arriving for the Games, and strongly urged participants to get vaccination boosters due to the spread of the Omicron variant. Officials also sought to alleviate concerns about …

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By Wa Lone and John Geddie (Reuters) -At least one person was killed and scores were missing after a landslide of dirt and rubble ripped down the waste heap of a Myanmar jade mine, sweeping workers searching for fragments of the gems into a lake and burying them under the debris. Throngs of their families …

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MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines on Thursday approved emergency use of Merck & Co Inc’s COVID-19 treatment pill for adult patients at risk of developing severe illness as it tries to boosts the country’s arsenal of drugs to fight new variants. It also approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5-11 so the vaccine, …

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